Translator's Note: The name
Martyn Zadeka, probably invented, was attached to a book of divination that
became immensely popular in Russia from the late eighteenth century; it is
consulted by Tatiana Larina in Evgenii
Onegin. See Faith Wigzell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and
Divination in Russia from 1769 (Cambridge, 1998).

The charismatic poet
Mikhail Mikhailovich Krasilnikov (1933-96) was expelled from Leningrad
University and imprisoned in the GULag from 1956-60 for ‘anti-Soviet activity’.
Loseff wrote an elegy for him (see As I
Said, 80-81) and also, with Rebecca Pyatkevich, ‘Mikhail Krasilnikov: A
Memoir’, Ulbandus Review, 9(2005-6),
69-86.